Description
Advancing nutrition involves implementing targeted actions to improve dietary quality, address nutrient deficiencies, and promote food security. This strategy focuses on ensuring access to diverse, safe, and affordable foods, supporting nutrition education, and fortifying staple foods where needed. It remedies malnutrition, stunting, and related health issues by strengthening food systems, fostering community-based interventions, and integrating nutrition goals into public policy, thereby enhancing overall health and development outcomes.
Implementation
The International Conference on Nutrition (ICN) was held in 1992. The 150 countries that participated in ICN committed themselves to developing plans with attainable goals and measurable targets in nutrition advancement. As a follow-up, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has helped more than 40 countries prepare national plans of action for nutrition.
The South Pacific Commission (SPC) advances nutrition in some 22 island nations. In 1993, for instance, SPC provided assistance to Western Samoa in finalizing the national food and nutrition policy for improving nutritional health in the whole country.
Claim
Foods should be your medicine and medicine should be your food (Hippocrates).
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Problem
Value
UIA organization
Web link
SDG
Metadata
Database
Global strategies
Type
(C) Cross-sectoral strategies
Subject
- Amenities » Food
- Communication » Advertising
- Communication » Promotion
- Health care » Health
- Health care » Nutrition
- Industry » Foodstuffs
- Industry » Industry
Content quality
Presentable
Language
English
1A4N
J1117
DOCID
12011170
D7NID
197852
Editing link
Official link
Last update
Jan 30, 2019